KATMANDU, Nepal -- A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest's peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,850-meter-high (29,035 ...

Despite the tragedy, one woman had reason to celebrate. Tamae Watanabe, 73, set a record as the oldest woman to reach the summit of Everest. It was a record she claimed from, well, herself: Watanabe first entered the Guinness Book of World ...

Tamae Watanabe, set foot on top of the world today, reaching the Everest's summit at 8,848 metre, from the tough northern side in Tibet along with another Japanese Norriyuki Muraguchi and three Sherpa guides , according to the Asian Trekking ...

Qomolangma on Saturday morning, breaking her own record of the oldest woman to scale the world's highest peak. Tamae Watanabe reached the 8,848-meter peak to smash her own record set in 2002 at the age of 63. Chairman of the Asian Trekking Ang Tshering ...

Saturday was also windier than usual. On Saturday a 73-year old Japanese woman, Tamae Watanabe, had climbed the mountain from the northern side on the Tibet-China border to become the oldest woman on the summit. Bal Krishna Ghimire, a spokesman ...

Tamae Watanabe reached the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet) summit with a Japanese partner and three Nepali Sherpa guides on Saturday morning, said Ang Tshering Sherpa, who runs the Asian Trekking company, which provided logistics to the team. “Watanabe and ...

Tamae Watanabe, a 73-year-old Japanese woman Saturday broke her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale Mount Everest. She had climbed Everest in 2002 at the age of 63 to become the oldest woman then to scale the peak.

Roughly 150 climbers succeeded in reaching the summit over the weekend, however, including 73-year-old Tamae Watanbe, who is now the oldest woman to ever scale the peak of Everest. Watanbe broke her own record this weekend which she set 10 years prior.

Tamae Watanabe reached the 8 850 metre summit with a Japanese partner and three Nepali Sherpa guides on Saturday morning, said Ang Tshering Sherpa, who runs the Asian Trekking company, which provided logistics to the team. “Watanabe and other climbers ...

Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association says Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 29,035-foot-high summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on Saturday morning with four other team members. Tshering says Watanabe and the other ...